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i think we are feeding that. blurring the lines. i dont hold the position as so many that only a demented psychotic rapes. i think people can tell themselves all kinds of things to validate a behavior and if there are no strict code of behavior, acceptance it is much easier for some to walk over the line that they may not otherwise do with societal absolutes.

the reason this is so hard is because there are people that use this argument in areas we would abhor hearing and we fight against. i am not smart enough to figure out how to address it. i just know in my heart, it is.

the upside crispy, is already a new generation is coming. i have said since the mid to late 90's this has been a boiling vat of experiment with our kids. the older kids walked into this with no perception of what was happening. the younger kids have watched. a lot of them are not accepting or liking what they are seeing. they are making different choices and drawing lines.

sexting was at 30% in middle school 4? yrs ago. there has been a big push to educate the kids. i recently saw it is 10% now.

Like seabeyond said, we're already seeing the younger generation drawing back.

And I took it personally.

Women's own sexual cues, conditioned by constant exposure to male-oriented sexual stimuli. It disturbs me tremendously that some such stimuli are cues for me, and that certain other stimuli aren't.

Is there deprogramming available?

I can't think of anything else I might have been programmed to do or think or feel that involved much effort to cast off -- religion, for instance. This is whole different ball of, er, wax, isn't it? How do you even begin to stop exposing yourself to a stream of male-oriented sexual stimuli? Turn the TV off permanently to start with ...

I wonder whether pointing out that all these liberated porn users are really just Pavlov's dogs (and that they actually do have choice in the matter and it ain't biology at all) would give them pause. Not likely.

so far is to simply stop reinforcing those cues. You just re-train your brain.

And no, I agree that pointing out anything at all would make any difference. If these things aren't recognized as a problem by the person experiencing the problem, then nothing anyone can say would matter.

Really, really interesting.

I hope more scientists study these issues. But then porn is an immensely lucrative industry, so...

Love this guy:

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/daniel-radcliffe-told-not-to-trim-his-pubic-hair-for-allen-ginsberg-role-in-kill-your-darlings-by-director-john-krokidas/story-e6frewyr-1226258763144

snip>"It seems natural body hair is important for Radcliffe as he also revealed he doesn't like girls who have 'Brazilians'.

"This is way too much information, but I don't like girls with nothing down there either. It freaks me out. You have to have something, otherwise it's f***ing creepy," the actor told Heat magazine."

That is a stretch to link child rape to hairlessness in pornography, IMO. The mechanism of rewiring the brain is going to require a certain frequency of masturbation not mentioned here. And if I am to believe the last paragraph quoted in the OP, very weak to dissipate in only 30 days. Of the negatives I can think of regarding porn, this isn't one.

IMO we should be more concerned about the actions and intent of groups like NAMGLA and NAMBLA.